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Shaun Manning
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Co-founder and former owner of Booksweet, your community bookstore in Ann Arbor. Writer of things, mostly comics. Open for work. He/Him.

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Read this incredibly depressing manga last night and then, in a first for me, actually dreamt an even more depressing ending for it. In Asano’s style!
Cover of Downfall by Inio Asano. Cover image is manga art in black and white with a grey background of a man’s face in profile, tilted slightly down. He wears glasses and has had a neutral expression.
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Good morning
A ginger cat named Cheese looks up at us while laying on a pillow under a blanket
October 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Anthologies can sometimes be a mixed bag, so it’s exciting to see s book with a great theme also full of great stories. Congrats to everyone involved with Come Out and Play!
The comics anthology Come Out and Play in my hand, the cover full of colorful sports figures against a purple background. Behind the book you can see my torty cat Kitski’s butt as she lays on my lap.
October 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Screenshot of a news post that shows Speaker Mike Johnston and the headline “U.S. Republican leader warns government shutdown could be longest in history” Scene from I Think You Should Leave. Tim Robinson, dressed as a hot dog, says “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this”
October 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Just preordered from my local bookstore!
An order for Galaxy 2 at the independent bookstore Booksweet’s website
October 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Hiiiiiiii
A plastic skeleton waves to us while standing outside a green house
October 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Live from the White House
DC Comics villain Atrocitus, in the red uniform of the rage-powered Red Lanterns, arches his arms back as he spits blood
October 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Tall pillow
Kitski, a torty cat, faces us as she sleeps on the tail of Cheese, a ginger cat, who is facing away
October 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Instead of fights these should be ships
A promotional image for DC Comics’ crossover event DC KO, which odds apparently about superheroes fighting each other in a tournament-style bracket. But what if they kissed instead? Some of the match ups/matches include Connor Hawke and Hawkman, Zatanna and Big Barda, and chaos-bi icons Lobo and Plastic Man.
October 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Update:
It’s me wearing the Grim Ass shirt seen in the original post and giving a thumbs up. The actual color of the shirt is a light blue instead of grey
October 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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My writing career summed up in one image
From Gravity Falls. Hapless journalist Toby Determined, a wire man with a long mustache, adapts to the apocalypse with a teal-gradient liberty spike hairdo, leather shorts, a skull belt buckle, and a purple shirt with the blue text “Daisy Girl”
October 2, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Someone was giving this away on my local buy-nothing group and I missed ittttttttttt
A grey t-shirt with a decent but not official illustration of the McDonald's character Grimace on it. The text above says "Grim Ass"
September 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Just being very normal about my current fandom
A still from K-pop Demon Hunters, Rumi leans forlornly against a wall and there is Korean text in the background Screenshot of Rosetta Stone app showing that I’m about to start learning Korean
September 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Fell asleep reading
Kitski, a torty cat, sleeps curled around a copy of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Scwab
September 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Jesus Christ I just turned 46 and
Shaun, a whites man with brown hair and glasses, gives a yikes look to the camera, which looks slightly down on him.
September 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Special orders came in. I love @keezyyoung.bsky.social’s art and have been looking forward to Hello Sunshine for a while, and I’ve heard amazing things about Drome by Jesse Lonergan. Thanks @shopbooksweet.bsky.social! #indiebookstores #comics
A photo outside of Booksweet, a bookstore that has its logo of a woman diving into a book in the window. Shaun’s hand holds copies of Drome by Jesse Lonergand and Hello Sunshine by Keezy Young
September 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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bye bye hulu and disney+

maybe next time don't be such absolute cowards
Screenshot of a Hulu cancellation screen that says "We'll miss ya, Shaun."
September 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Finally got sick of all the self-righteous clowns dismissing all the many devastating vectors of harm this administration is causing as less important than what they want to talk about.
Bluesky moderation settings screen showing that I have muted the words “distracted” and “distraction.”
September 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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A group of six men and women stand, several with their hands clasped low in front of their bodies and heads tilted slightly to the side, a welcoming and loose posture. This is a scene from the Good Place, where the governing body of the real Good Place prove to be very friendly but completely ineffectual.
September 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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“It’s not like the Snuggie”
Still from the TC Tuggers sketch on I Think You Should Leave. Tim Robinson, playing a high school principal, wears a green jacket over a blue t-shirt with a cool blue knob near the belly.
September 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Me when a baby cries
A Guardian headline proclaiming “Babies’ cries can make humans physically hotter, research finds.” Image is a heatmap of a person’s face. Still from the Amazing World of Gumball. Gumball, a blue cartoon cat, has his face contorted into what in his view is a very attractive face, with exaggerated high cheekbones and a prominent cleft chin.
September 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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A few years ago my daughter found my embarrassing hand-painted anime backpack from high school, and used it until broken. Well, apparently I made two, because my mom just found this gem 😅
A backpack with an anime girl painted on it—I know it’s from a series, do not remember which one. Something you’d be able to get on VHS circa 1997. She wears a flowing yellow bandana over purple hair, a grey top with a red belt around her waist. There is some red kana but is kind of crumpled into the backpack in this photo.
September 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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What are some books Obama definitely read that aren’t on his summer reading list? I’ll go first.
Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. Nacosta. Cover features a woman in a red dress cuddling up to an absolutely jacked Minotaur with ginger hair.
August 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Clams
A store shelf with pastel mugs each with one letter on them, arranged to spell out CLAMS
August 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Ominous thrift store find
A small canvas in a goodwill bin. Against an orange and brown background are painted the words “TRUST & OBEY”
August 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM